Ingredients for a 21st Birthday.

1. codeine-painkiller: a white crystalline drug derived from opium (really?), but milder in action, used as a painkiller and to relieve coughing. This was a gift from God. I got my Wisdom teeth out yesterday.

2. Shopping with my mother, Compete with Goodwill and a Cherry limeade.

3. Making the coolest record bowls ever.
I am serious.
Turn oven to bake at 350 and place old record onto pizza pan.
Bake for a 1 1/2 min.
Take out and place in slightly smaller bowl. push down into shape of bowl...result, Amazing.
4. sleeping a whole lot.:)

Trust me

9 down 1 to go.

my internship ends this week. In most cases being gone for 10 week people would be excited to be going home. I on the other hand am at a loss. I am happy for the break, but i will miss everyone terribly. At the beginning of the summer i was somewhat nervous. This has been the first time that I have been "on my own". I knew no one 9 weeks ago and now I feel like i am leaving my family. I wish sometimes that all of my friends lived in the same place, i know that is not possible but it is a nice thought. I have one more week of mission indy and then my parents will be picking me up taking me back to IL. This past week was my last week at Horizon house. The overall experience was wonderful. God has taught me a lot. I know i was there 20 days but i feel in that time i have become a different person. I saw the love and compassion God has for his people. Helping at Horizon house has been has helped me to see that there is something we can do to help people. The meaning of the Good Samaritan. I by no mean have been the good Samaritan but i have seen what is to be one. Giving your all to help your brother/sister in Christ. I never expected to see the fruits of my labor there. My goal was to love them as God would. But on the last day, John, one of our neighbors, came up to me and showed me his ticket stub. It showed me that he has gotten a job that we had looked up together. It amazes me how God works.

As I was thinking of this one of my favorite songs Trust Me by the fray kept playing over in my mind,

Looking for something I've never seen
Alone and I'm in between
The place that I'm from and the place that I'm in
A city I never been
I found a friend or should I say a foe
Said there's just a few things you should know
We don't want you to see we come and we go
Here today, gone tomorrow

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When you're older you will understand

If I say who I know it just goes to show
You need me less than I need you
But take it from me we don't give sympathy
You can trust me trust nobody
But I said you and me we don't have honesty
The things we don't want to speak
I'll try to get out but I never will
This traffic is perfectly still

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When you're older you will understand

And then again maybe you don't
And then again maybe you won't

When you're older you might understand
When you're older you might understand


The chorus is what gets to me. We have been called to help our brothers/sister with everything. And we only have one turn to do it. I just hoping that i am not messing it up.

My 4th

My fourth consisted of
A. 4 hours at the Indianapolis Art Institute.
People to look up (Last names, in order taken from my map):
1. Hardrick
2. Melchers
3.Bell
4.Homer Really like him
5.Thayer
6.Kuitca This looks red but closer it a huge map, really cool.
7.Benson
8. T.C. Steele
9. Robert Reid same name as my gpa
10. Duran
11.Colyer
13.fitton What the heck.

B. Near death experience (almost got hit by a firework)

Over all good day.